Where does water come from?
Science has little to tell regarding
the origin of water, so, we return to the holy scripture for succour:
God created heaven and earth. And the earth was a formless
void, and darkness was upon the face
of the deep. And the Spirit of God
hovered over the face of the waters (Gen
1: 1-2).
This initial creative description
appears to have the heaven, the earth, darkness,
and water, as progenitors of the 7-day creation account that followed. Its
visible Protagonist being the Spirit of God which hovered over the waters,
because, from the onset, there seem to exist an intrinsic belovedness and unity
between the Spirit and water.
Science
has poked through the heavens and
has provided certain explanations regarding the origin of the earth with the Big Bang theory. It has
also offered propositions about the existence of darkness with the Black holes theorem; but, there is yet to be any
credible conclusion about the origin of this colourless, odourless, tasteless,
and shapeless element called water. Could water be a mystery that God intends
to keep away from us?
Let us hypothetically discuss how
the following 7-day creative act of God has developed from the base creations
of heavens, earth, darkness and water
already discussed.
On the first day, God spoke, He
called out light from pre-existing darkness (2 Cor 4: 6; Gen 1: 3) and
called it day, and the darkness he called night, thus setting history into
motion. Evening came, morning came… (Gen 1: 4-5) first day.
The firmament was called forth
from pre-existing waters, and, just as
he separated light from darkness on the first day, with the aid of the
firmaments, he divided the waters above from the waters below, (Gen 1: 6-8)
…second day.
God teamed up all the waters
below the firmament and land was born (Gen 1: 9). Water is the mother of land
and subsequently everything that came out from the land: grass, herbs, trees (Gen
1: 11- 12) … third day.
God created other lights in the
firmament of heaven (Gen 1: 14) to rule over days and nights, and to divide
light from darkness. Light, the first creative master, rules the night and is
divided from darkness (Gen 1: 15-18) ...fourth day.
Here we see why Science studies
the cosmos as a reference to light (the speed of light). This is because God
intends lights to rule and to be used for signs, for seasons, for days and for
years (Gen 1:14).
The fourth day probably explains
why man finds himself subordinated to the gods (lights) of the heavens. The
ancients, and now the modern, through Science, worship the rulers above the
firmament (the lights). You worship anything that you are totally subordinated
and devoted to.
Science is entirely subordinated
to the rules of the cosmos as dictated by the direction and speed of light, its
Lord. But this is not enough, because a man has come as the Light of the world
(Jn 8:12), and has named his followers also as such (Mt 5:14). He arrived and
changed the dynamics of this subordination and devotion. We shall return to
this subject later, but meanwhile, let us return to the creation account.
God was not yet finished with
water, He commanded her to bring forth living creatures, fish and birds inclusive.
Scripture at this point specifically uses the word ‘living’. Every living creature came out of water, and God blessed
them with a mandate to replicate (Gen 1:20-23) which is characteristic of any
living organism …fifth day
Land, which comes from water on
the third day, produces cattle, creeping things, beasts … (Gen 1:24) and lastly
man was also created out from the land in the image and likeness of God (Gen
1:26-31) … sixth day.
Man, who comes out from the land
that is born of water, has a double mandate of ruling over all that is beneath
the firmaments, and of replicating its own kind. Man is therefore the Lord of everything
that is born, either of water or of the land.
Vain subordination and devotion
to the lights above the firmaments is rampant, but there is a son of man who has given men the
audacity to pry boldly into the heavens, no more as worshippers, but as Lords, because
it is through Him that humanity can transcend from being images of God unto being
Gods.
The lights are rulers of the
heavens and the cosmos which have a finiteness (Lk 21:33) because they are
ingrained within the dynamics of laws, but the
son of man brings something far more. He is the Word which never passes
away (Lk 21:33), He completes these laws (Mt 5:17) that we may transcend them
by providing believers with the spring of water which wells up to eternity (Jn
4:14), thus creating a new heaven and a new earth (Rev 21: 1).
The root of this transformation
is found in the nothingness of Mary who is the predominant archetype and medium
by which God is begotten through water, blood and Spirit, which are the 3
witnesses of grace of which she is graced with its plenitude (Lk 1: 28).
Stephen Hawking may not be far
from the kingdom of God (Mk 12:34) by declaring in The Grand Design that the universe can generate itself out of
nothing. He simply did not know that this nothing has been personified in Mary.
Christ is born of a woman (Gal 4:4)
by water, blood and spirit: the 3 entities that bear witness both on earth and
in heaven (1 Jn 5:6-8). The Spirit, the third person by whom He became
incarnate in her, we know. Blood (and flesh), a constituent of the human souls,
we can tell. But what about water, the third witness that is in her?
Every baby in the womb of a woman
develops inside an amniotic sac of water. The breaking of this water is what precedes
the delivery of a baby during labour. Water which happens as a form of birth,
surrounds the entire mission of Christ, at His Incarnation inside the amniotic
sack of Mary, at His baptism at River Jordan (Mt 3:13-17), from the gushing
forth of water and blood from His side during His crucifixion (Jn 19:34) which
is the bringing forth of His Church.
Christ’s legacy of Baptism, without
which no man can enter His Kingdom (Jn 3: 3-7), also introduces this mystery of
water. Being born again by the Spirit is understandable, but why would Christ
insist that one must also be born of water to be saved?
Water happens
as a paradox of life and death and leaves more questions asked than answered.
How many cities and civilisations throughout history have sprung forth around,
and because of water. Scientists keep scanning the entire cosmos for life using
evidences of water as basis for signs of life. Water remains very indispensable
for life, and as the Afrobeat legend puts it: ‘Water no get enemy, if you fight am, unless you wan die’.
This death by water talked about
happens to the uninitiated (unbaptised). The event of crossing of the Red Sea shows
this (Ex:14), the water which gushed forth from the Dragon to kill the woman in
Revelations is another example (Rev: 12-16) and many people with near death
experiences have equally recounted their experiences of water as agents of death.
It is only by the experience of Christ
that we can experience water as a lasting and authentic source of life that
transcends rules. The bridge between this old and new life, between death and
life, is she who dwells in the secret shelter of the Most high (Ps 91:1). The recognition
of Mary as an ancient and eternal transition forward from the old to the new is
that which provides an opening unto the real Israel which is the reign of her
Divine Son, Christ Jesus.
Copernicus and Galileo may after
all be wrong in saying that the sun is the centre of the universe. It depends
on the manner of seeing. Faith often
enables belief before sight. The sun which rules the heavens is not the centre
of the universe. The earth, this little speck from the vast cosmos is that
which the entire universe serves and which begets God.
Earth is where the replication of
life governed by Eve, the mother of all that live subsists. Not the old Eve by
which we see the sun’s supremacy, but the new Eve, Mary, by whom the true Sun
of Justice, the son of man, is the true centre.
“Truly, unless a man is born of
water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of heaven” (Jn 3:3).
Christ’s mission, in His essence is to get man back to the roots of creation. We
are the reason why He went through the agony of the Cross, to integrate us back
into the pure mystery of this primordial creation.
This land, of which man receives
his blessings, was created, born of water and the spirit (Jn 3:5), and it is from
this land that Christ was born in its purest form. The land is Mary. “Woman,
behold thy son” (Jn19:26). That is love to its highest limits. “Woman behold
the son”.
Remember the 3rd day.
Land was created out of water on the 3rd day, Christ rose on the 3rd
day. Being born of water and the Holy Spirit is just a call on man to retrace
his roots into his peaceful essence through the merits of Christ’s death and
resurrection, which He underwent solely for us, but which He acquired in Mary
for Himself, that which He also wishes to share. “Woman behold the son”.
So, where does water come from?
The new primordial water which
saves is embedded within the new archetypal creation which is Mary, she is
the new creature through which new creations are begotten. It is from her amniotic sac of water that the
new citizens of the new creation, the sons of God are begotten.
The origin of water is from the
humble bosom of Mary.
